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I would like more time in the woodshed on this one, a lot more. One measure in particular is always a monster. Nevertheless, this one was quite fun and a real merge of two very different styles. Think “Asturias” when you hear it, although the emotional feel is quite different since this is a fairly bright Major-key piece.

Probably “Confusa se miri” next but my brain is dangling shiny things in front of me in the shape of a ragtime “Non è si vago e bello,” so we’ll see whether I can herd it into the appropriate direction.

Is the jazz and the rock variations I’ve written. I have a feeling that the jazz stuff just gets linked through via some automated thing that scrapes through SoundCloud and assembles random jazz playlists, like an ad hoc jazz radio station or something. I’m not sure about why the rock gets linked so much — might be for the same reason.

At any rate, that little factoid is interesting but I suspect not of much use to me since I have no intention of writing only jazz or only rock, and since there’s no money in music any more, anyway. I should go out of my way to make the next arrangement some tinkety-tink, prissy ultra-Classical-period thing again, like that last Mozartean étude-ish thing I did.

Sort of Elton John-ish. Surprisingly tiring, and quite fun. I’m starting to get antsy to write something more substantial again, though. These short bites are fun and stretch my muscles in interesting ways, but I am increasingly thinking about writing something quite a bit longer than I’ve done in the past and more involved. Listening to too much Rachmaninoff lately, I suppose.